Mountain School

Outdoor Learning

July 30, 2014 By vtplt

Marilyn Thompson and Linda Burnett found success in teaching students at the Mountain School at Winhall outdoors after participating in a Project Learning Tree facilitator training at Seyon Lodge State Park in 2010. Since then they trained all their colleagues at the school in PLT and made the school grounds into an effective outdoor classroom.… [read more]

Research shows that people who enjoyed meaningful experiences in the outdoors as a child, are able to think critically and act responsibly on behalf of the ecological, social, and economic values of our forests and other natural resources as adults.

VT Project Learning Tree achieves its mission by training educators in Project Learning Tree®, the time-honored environmental education curricula developed by the American Forest Foundation.

VT Project Learning Tree relies on the support of every facet of the community--businesses, individuals and government--to accomplish its mission.